Twice shy
By: by Patrick Freivald
Publisher: JournalStone
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781936564583; 9781936564507; 9781936564576
Subjects: Horror & Ghost Stories; Zombies; High schools; Juvenile fiction; JUVENILE FICTION; Fiction
Description: Ohneka Falls is a small, western New York town where everyone knows everyone and nothing of note happens. Ani Romero is a sixteen-year-old girl who wants to play sports, hang out and kiss Mike, her middle-school crush. A childhood carrier of the zombie virus, she died at fourteen but didn't become a mindless, brain-eating monster. Her controlling mother forces her to join the emo crowd to hide her condition behind a wall of black clothes and makeup, and her friends abandon her. When creeper Dylan learns her secret, he falls into obsession, with Ani and with death. She bites him in self-defense. Persecuted by the jocks and ignored by Mike, Ani struggles through the motions of life hoping her mother's research unveils a cure, or Dylan dooms them all to a hungry, walking death. As her emo facade crumbles in the face of jealousy and obsession, Ani knows that the worst thing she can do is be true to herself.
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